curioadu

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by curioadu 1mo ago
I do not quite buy your arguments, and I am skeptical of several claims that you make. Without specific sources, it is more difficult for me to contest them, though I will not request sources. From your perspective, what caused the extincti
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by curioadu 1mo ago
Aksum was more east of Egypt than south, right? And part of it lay in the Arabian Peninsula.
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by curioadu 1mo ago
In some ways I agree with you, but I also think that the other commenter indirectly might uncover some insights. For instance, Australian Aboriginals mighy have historically both; fire-stick farmed ("farming" in the sense of clear
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by curioadu 1mo ago
While many Amerindians had impressive achievements considering their almost complete isolation from the rest of the world, your claim seems misleading. > At its apex around 1100 AD, the city [Cahokia] covered about 6 square miles (16 km2
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by curioadu 1mo ago
I wonder if one could group Central American and North-Central-American civilizations and peoples into two gross and very approximate groups: 1: Sedentary farmers like Aztecs and possibly Pueblos and those doing Three Sisters farming, some
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by curioadu 1mo ago
The destruction during the Spanish conquests of the Aztecs and others was terrible. It was also rather disorganized initially, especially due to the huge delays regarding communication between the Americas and Europe. In regards to paper, w
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by curioadu 1mo ago
> East Africa practiced stuff like homegardens which can be complex, multi-layered agroforestry systems that usually surround homesteads. I've heard the Hausa traditionally did something similar. Homegardens seem much smaller in sca
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by curioadu 1mo ago
> (something which the west has only relatively recently come around on). I am not quite sure what you mean by this. Is it consistent with this? > From the 9th century to the 11th century, farmers in Europe transitioned from a two-fi
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by curioadu 1mo ago
Is that vaguely related to slash-and-burn? Did it also change the ecological system of Australia? Some articles said that Aboriginals might have caused the extinction of a lot of larger animals in different ways, arguably superficially simi
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by curioadu 1mo ago
> throughout the Americas you see really complex polycultural farming traditions including the famous chinampas. Interesting. Do you know of anything somewhat similar for Africa, ignoring the lands of Egypt and the lands near the Mediter